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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blindness & Apathy. The committee was not convinced. It thought that China needed military as well as economic assistance. Last week it got plenty of support for this opinion. William C. Bullitt, onetime Ambassador to Russia, came forward to testify that the Nanking government was in immediate need of at least $100 million in outright military aid. To boot, the U.S. should dispatch to China "the best man that can be found"-say, General Douglas MacArthur (see below) or General Mark Clark...
Weakest Link. Dr. Condon answered sharply: "If I am the weak link in atomic security, then the nation need have no fear." He said that he had asked Thomas for a hearing last summer on the charges but had had no reply. Promptly the Commerce Department announced that only six days before the Thomas report was issued the departmental loyalty board had held, unanimously, that "no reasonable grounds exist for believing Dr. Condon is disloyal...
...Well." Their decision was first to bring pressure on the Democratic bosses and convince them that the party was sure to lose with Truman. They might not need much pressure in that quarter. As for a substitute-out of their conferences came an extraordinary idea. Unembarrassed by labor's traditional suspicion of the military or by Dwight Eisenhower's flatly worded statement to the Republicans, they had seriously discussed the chances of getting Ike to be the Democrats' man. As a possible running mate they had turned hopeful eyes on Supreme Court Justice William Douglas. The story...
...Sinners need not hang back, says the Cloud: "No man needs to think that he is presumptuous in daring to offer himself to God as a contemplative even though he has been the worst kind of a sinner in this life. He may offer to God the meek longing love of his heart and in secret set himself to beat on this Cloud of Unknowing. . . . Our Lord said to Mary [Magdalene], a sinner above all sinners . . . 'Thy sins be forgiven thee.' He said this not because of her deep contrition for her sins, nor because she knew...
...idea of censorship, except where the nation's security is plainly involved. So does Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who has plugged for sensible security rules ever since he pried open the Navy's clam-tight policy in 1944. Military censorship ended with the war,* but the need for keeping military secrets did not. Last week Forrestal called in 22 press, radio and newsreel representatives to talk over ways to keep them...